Committee of Adjustment · Toronto
Variance odds
Planning a bigger house, an addition or a garden suite that needs a minor variance? See how the Committee of Adjustment decided similar applications near your lot: approvals, refusals and withdrawals in your ward and within 1 km, over the last 3 and 5 years.
16 Vanevery St, Toronto
Past decisions don't predict future ones; not a planning opinion. Counts of the City's recorded decisions on minor variance applications. With fewer than 10 decisions we say “too few decisions to estimate”.
| Where and when | Decisions | Approved (all) | Approved | With conditions | Refused | Withdrawn | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward 3, last 3 years | 647 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 4% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 3 years | 49 | 90% | 90% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 10 weeks |
| Ward 3, last 5 years | 1,168 | 87% | 87% | 0% | 9% | 3% | 10 weeks |
| Within 1 km, last 5 years | 88 | 92% | 92% | 0% | 8% | 0% | 10 weeks |
Typical time: median from the application date to the hearing at which the Committee decided (approved or refused). Withdrawn applications have no hearing.
| Category | Within 1 km | Approved | Ward 3 | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor space index / gross floor area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 25 | 96% |
| Building height | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 22 | 86% |
| Lot coverage | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 11 | 100% |
| Front yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 3 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Side yard setback | 1 | too few decisions to estimate | 25 | 96% |
| Rear yard setback | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Parking | 4 | too few decisions to estimate | 53 | 85% |
| Lot frontage / lot area | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 1 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Building length / depth | 0 | too few decisions to estimate | 9 | too few decisions to estimate |
| Garden or laneway suite | 3 | too few decisions to estimate | 50 | 76% |
The City publishes each application's purpose, not its list of variances. We count a category only when the purpose names it (“parking”, “lot coverage”, “side yard setback”). 78 of the decisions within 1 km name none, so the category counts are a floor, not the full picture.
Conditions
0 of 81 approvals within 1 km in the last 5 years are recorded as conditional. The City's open data records whether a decision had conditions, not what they were; common ones are building to the submitted plans and arborist or engineering requirements. Read the decision for the file.
Nearest comparable decisions
- 16 Vanevery St · 0 m · Approved on 2025-07-24 · Garden or laneway suiteTo construct a new fourplex and a garden suite in the rear yard.File A0232/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 29 Vanevery St · 80 m · Approved on 2026-02-26To construct a new detached dwelling with an attached garage.File A0471/25EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 172 Royal York Rd · 150 m · Approved on 2022-04-21To construct a two-storey addition above the existing dwelling and an attached garage at the rear of the dwelling.File A0156/22EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 230 Royal York Rd · 160 m · Approved on 2024-05-09To construct a new 9-storey mixed-use building that will contain 60 residential units (58 new purpose built rental units and 2 rental replacement units) and 1 commercial unit.File A0137/24EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre
- 98 George St · 190 m · Approved on 2021-11-30To construct a two-storey rear addition, a second storey addition above the existing dwelling, a new front porch and a rear yard deck with a basement walk-out.File A0507/21EYK: look it up in the City's Application Information Centre